3 items tagged “ticketing”
2013
Online Ticketing: Is Biletto a good way to find music / entertainment events in London, or are there any other alternatives? What are some problems you see with the site?
It looks like a clone of http://www.yplanapp.com/ to me, but without the exclusive inventory.
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Are there any live event ticketing options that are using the Kickstarter model?
Kickstarter itself can be used in this way—the recent XOXO conference in Portland was funded through Kickstarter in exactly the way you describe: http://www.kickstarter.com/proje...
[... 46 words]What is a more equal-opportunity way to distribute access to a free event that is expected to sell out quickly?
A much better method than releasing all of the tickets at once is to release them in batches—say 50 tickets at a time over three different releases. This greatly reduces the “only people online at the time get a chance” factor by giving people three separate chances to grab their ticket. You can vary the time of day for each batch to make it fairer for people who might be at work / in meetings / having dinner with family at certain times of day (or to take timezones in to account if you expect attendees from far away).
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